This book contains the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Software Business, ICSOB 2016, held … in Ljubljana, Slovenia, in June 2016. Software business refers to commercial activities in and around the software … industry aimed at generating income from the delivery of software products and services. The theme of the event was "Software …

How does one of the world’s biggest Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) suppliers develop software? How do Oracle, SAP …, Microsoft and Co really work? Christine Grimm presents a first-hand account of a social researcher who entered the software …

This book opens the “black box” of software sourcing by explaining how dynamic software alignment is established and … how it impacts business performance outcomes. By investigating how software-sourcing modes are related to value generation …-house software on dynamic fit and process-level performance outcomes in a client organization. It describes dynamic IT alignment as …

A. Background: How the software industry works -- Economic principles at work in the software industry -- Software … vendor strategies -- B. Specific Issues: Outsourcing and offshoring of software development -- Platform concepts -- Software … as a Service. 7. Open source software …

Matthias Bertram aims to develop a deeper understanding of software customization and its strategic role for software … firms to develop an in-depth understanding of the value of software customization as well as the vendor resources and … capabilities necessary to successfully provide software customization and the second on the vendor’s dynamic capabilities necessary …

This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. Software has changed the rules of the game. The world talks about … the digitalization in industry and society - how the focus has shifted from producing tangible things towards software and … services. This trend started many years ago, but is now affecting every company, whether it’s a software company or not. There …

The highly competitive and globalized software market is creating pressure on software companies. Given the current … by private life experiences with mobile computing devices, the World Wide Web and software-based services, peoples …’ general expectations with regards to software are growing. They expect software that is simple and joyful to use. In the light …